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Contents

Thank you, from the Principal...... 3 Fundraising in 2015-16...... 4 Putting your donations to work...... 8 Academic excellence, commitment to fairness & opportunity...... 10 Who benefits from your donations?...... 12 Meet some of the people doing teaching and research at Hertford...... 24 Meet our donors!...... 28 Thank you to 2015-2016 donors...... 30 What next for Hertford?...... 35 Thank you,

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Since Last year Altogether, which is equivalent to £728,000 of these smaller 1989 gifts raised over half our 751 704 £1,000 student support people made or less 1,331 alumni and people made was raised donations £137,691 expenditure. friends have donated a gift to the in pledges to Hertford. college & donations That’s the power of working as a team!

How many people give How much do people give? Regular gifts to Hertford? Average monthly gifts by age-range 5 people gave £20,001+ 35 1 gave £10,001-£20,000

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4 5 Telethon Legacies • 11 new legacy pledges (which means there are now over 127 people who have pledged to leave something spoke to to Hertford)

625 • One alumnus has just pledged Hertford a 13 alumni & very generous legacy friends callers gift – 20% of his estate! Over

Raised £220,000 £53,000 238 received from £1,000 in donations Matched fund donors of £175,000 7 legacies

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6 7 How gifts were used in 2015-16 Putting your Your gifts partially or wholly funded all of the projects below: donations to work!

Gifts from our friends and alumni allow us to maintain the unique Student support Teaching & College life Buildings tutorial system, support our research students with essential bursaries, 94 bursaries Donations funded 18 New kit for the 8 student bedrooms scholarships and grants, keep of £1,000 were research awards for rugby squad, funded were renovated in awarded to student travel to 15 by a donation from the newly acquired up important outreach work, and undergraduates with countries an alumnus 11 Winchester Road extend our program of renovation family income under and improvements to the historic £53,000 Donations were Running machine 36 bedrooms given for teaching for the student (including kitchens buildings. Thank you! 60 hardship of: gym, funded by a and facilities) in grants of £500- - Economics memorial donation Geoffrey Warnock 95% of donors in 2015-16 £1,000 were - History from the Hertford House were gave to the general fund, given to students - Medicine Society renovated (JCR, MCR, Other which means their gift experiencing - Computer Science Club etc.) Boat was put towards the unexpected & Philosophy Renovation of 13 2 new boilers most pressing needs financial difficulty - PPE historic portraits, were fitted in the of the college. - Geography. funded by the Graduate Centre n Ac 25 graduates collective support of to service 86 tio ad va e o m received Hertford These gifts were the Hertford Society. bathrooms and 17 n ic e c scholarships used towards kitchens r o & s supported by academic expenses 8 choral awards s ts g donations in those subjects. of £250 were The historic Old Hall in d il funded by specific was renovated. u B 40 school pupils donations attended the new fully-funded Two books from the outreach summer historic collection Gifts to the general school were renovated giving fund following specific 94 outreach events donations from

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Hertford’s academics undertake research undergraduates graduates Hertford tutorials over the course of an at the cutting edge of their subjects, and at academic year the same time they are deeply committed to teaching and supervising students. As well as departmental responsibilities, academics get involved in outreach and play an active £ role in the day-to-day running of the college – with the majority also doing the balancing act that many parents will be familiar with! 32 26 20 tutorial fellows stipendiary lecturers academic subjects taught

For UK undergraduates matriculating in 2016, 70% will be from state schools, 30% from independent schools

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10 11 Who benefits from your donations?

Outreach Bursaries

Sam Bovill (2015) Last year Catherine Redford, our Outreach Olivia Shillabeer (2013) Oxford wasn’t something that even Fellow visited 51 schools and hosted 94 When I first applied to Hertford, I was more directly to government policy. crossed my mind until I visited on outreach events at Hertford. This is what fairly certain that I would have to turn Being asked permission for the Cabinet the outreach day in 2012. One of the some of our school visitors said: down any offer I was lucky enough Office to subsequently publish and main reasons behind that is just the to receive – I knew I didn’t have the consult on our report was the cherry on reputation of the place. Even when my “The talks were fascinating and gave a money to cover even my rent. It is top. In that moment I realised just how pre-conceived notions were dispelled, real insight into how much more depth due to the incredible generosity of much Hertford had given me. it was hard to shake my view of Oxford you can go into at university. I also liked alumni that I was actually able to join I graduated this summer, and I’ve now and Hertford as this place where lots learning about the context of each the Hertford community and enjoy all the opportunities that affords. I ended moved up north to pursue the career of famous people went and where subject. The day has made me consider up working in various student-led in politics I’d always dreamed about. I students probably wore bowties subjects I might not have thought of consultancy societies, and was able to hope to make this career international everywhere and drank champagne studying, so I’m now going to do more research into those.” lead my own project looking into how by joining the Foreign Service or an from golden goblets. I thought it wellbeing economics could contribute international (preferably refugee- would be more expensive than other orientated) organisation. universities (it isn’t), I thought everyone “I enjoyed that we got to see all aspects would be uptight, posh and unfriendly of the college. It has convinced me to and I’d be the lone common scoundrel consider university as an option (before (they’re not and I’m not), and I thought the trip I was not planning on going). It’s the work would be absolutely brutal good to know that Oxford provides lots and I’d never have any free time again of support, whether it is with finance or (it’s only a little brutal). with courses.”

12 13 I had never imagined Academic support funds that I would want to go to Oxford, but after visiting Some of our donors specify that they want their gifts to be used by students for academic-related travel. Hertford for an open Francis, Cara and Alex wrote to tell us how these day I realised that the grants helped their studies – and broadened their students were nothing horizons. like the stereotypes.

Tim Hosgood (2012) Francis Martin (2012) I would not have been able to afford After graduating (and getting a First…), I Whilst still a poorly travelled schoolboy, improved, we were able to learn a little living in Oxford for four years without decided I wanted to pursue maths and I read Crime and Punishment and was more about each other. I am interested the generosity of Hertford’s bursaries, undertake a PhD – and I’ve moved to enthralled by the world Dostoevsky in religion, and plan to examine the and the same goes for many others that the south of France to do so. It’s been described. At a bazaar I picked up relationship between the church and I know. My mum had to leave school an interesting change from growing up a pocket-sized Russian-English the state in post-Soviet Russia as part of at 16 to get a job and so wanted me to in a small town in Devon. Unfortunately, dictionary, and learnt to say ‘I love my course in Oxford. So after finishing be able to have the chances she never had. We didn’t have much money, but learning French at school does not you’. In university holidays I travelled my language course I stayed for a week I managed to get good grades and, in prepare you for asking for a haircut, or through the Baltic states, Ukraine (both in a monastery which during Soviet the end, an offer from Hertford to study trying to explain to the local authorities before and after the start of conflict) times used to be a juvenile detention maths. I had never imagined that I would that the UK on your driving license and in Georgia and flirted further centre. I was their first foreign guest. want to go to Oxford, but after visiting really does stand for ‘United Kingdom’, with the Russian language. I met I played football with the boys in the Hertford for an open day (I was given a not Ukraine. Luckily though, studying people, of course, but was unable to attached pre-seminary school and ate tour by a student who had only had the maths at Oxford really did give me an communicate with most older people (and drank) with the monks, granting time to shave the left hand side of his additional useful life skill: being able who had learnt Russian rather than me a rare view of Russian Orthodox beard – lest he be too late to meet us!) I to sit through an hour long seminar English at school. The more I travelled, life. These experiences will allow me realised that the students were nothing understanding very little, but feeling the more convinced I became that I to approach my study of the Russian like the stereotypes. So many students okay about it. needed to learn Russian to take my Orthodox church with greater subtlety. at Hertford are the first in their family to understanding of these places further. It is easy to write caustically about such go to university, let alone Oxford. people when one does not know them, Last summer I spent ten weeks in and through my friendships with the Russia and Belarus for an intensive devout, I can better understand their Russian language course in Yaroslavl. justifications for views that are at odds I lived with and was provided with with many in the West. Alongside the enormous quantities of Russian food vocabulary and grammar, this deeper by an appropriately plump lady called human connection with Russia and Tatiana, and each day, as my Russian Belarus will be invaluable.

14 15 Scholarships

Senior Scholarships are highly competitive awards that attract outstanding graduates to Hertford – the scholarship awards £10,000 to the successful candidates over two years, which helps them with the financial burden of postgraduate study. In 2016, thanks to new donations, we were able to offer eight Senior Scholarships rather than our usual five (from an astounding 226 applicants) – thank you to the donors who made this possible!

Cara Turton-Chambers (2014) Alex Spencer (2014) This summer I was lucky enough An entire dissertation dedicated to to receive a grant to help my ‘dust’ doesn’t set the world alight at undergraduate research in the first glance. But these tiny particles Peak District. I had heard that an have dramatic global consequences organisation called Moors for the on human health, weather and climate. Future was trying to repair the moors The Do4Models project in Namibia by spraying loads of fertiliser over focuses on dust emission, and thanks the landscape from a helicopter. But to the research grant I received, I according to an Environment Agency spent 7 weeks in their research base worker I spoke to, although one at Okaukuejo, Etosha National Park. of the aims was to improve water Having the opportunity to be a part Jerome Mayaud (2013) Natalya Din-Kariuki (2014) quality, the fertiliser washed into river of front-line climate research was Jerome is in the third year of his Natalya is in the third year of a DPhil in courses. With the help of the funding, a privilege – and a lead researcher DPhil in Geography and holds the English. She was awarded the Drapers’ I conducted research and interviews on the project introduced me to the Mann Senior Scholarship at Hertford. Senior Scholarship in 2016. in three different locations around idea of referring to ‘small flying rocks’ the Peak District, and was able to (instead of dust) to whet the appetite Hertford’s effortless charm, sociable The Drapers’ Senior Scholarship award demonstrate the results to Moors of the unassuming observer! community and delicious dinners will enable me to complete the final, for the Future. We are now talking combine to make it very difficult for and in many ways most important, about a potential workshop with their a student to ever leave the City of stages of doctoral research. My thesis staff about the research findings. I’m Spires. But I managed it – and I used argues that rhetorical invention from also applying for masters courses in the funds from my scholarship to classical authorities like Cicero and Environmental Management/Change travel to Namibia’s Kalahari Desert to Quintilian played an important part which will help me pursue a career in test nitrate concentrations in the sand in the way that early modern English conservation. dunes, and to Mongolia’s Gobi Desert travellers both wrote about and as part of a project investigating the experienced life on the road. In the impact of a large copper mine on thesis, one of the travellers I study nomadic herder livelihoods. includes William Scott, a Kentish lawyer, politician, and writer who studied at Hart Hall (now Hertford College).

16 17 Rugby

Dáire McCormack-George Martin Sepiol (2013) (2016) Martin is in his fourth year of his DPhil Dáire holds the newly created David in Atomic and Laser Physics and & Helen Elvin scholarship in Law and was awarded the Carreras Senior is currently doing his BCL at Hertford. Scholarship in 2014. He comes to Oxford from Trinity College Dublin, where he published I was honoured to receive the Charlie Beard captained the In club news, we managed to reach on the extent to which a right to Carreras Senior Scholarship, which Hertford College Rugby Club in the semi finals of cuppers this shelter can be found in Irish law. supported my work in experimental 2015-2016. He is succeeded by season. Looking forward, a return physics. Quantum computing is a Marcus Hoddinott who will take over tour to Mongolia in the summer Without this scholarship and the method of using quantum mechanical as Captain. of 2017 is planned, maintaining generous support of Hertford’s systems (in my case, single atoms) the club’s commitment to touring alumni, I simply could not have come to perform calculations that would An alumnus kindly offered to cover overseas. It promises to be an to Oxford. My research concerns the be impossible on any conventional the costs of new kit which had a exciting few years ahead as the club implementation and development computer. Every increase in precision great impact on the team this year. goes from strength to strength. of theories of equality in law. I am brings us a step closer towards the Having a full set of kit makes such a interested in how human rights and construction of a usable quantum difference in helping the team look equality affect employment laws computer. and feel professional! Thank you and how those values could be to him and to everyone else who used to eradicate discrimination in donates to the Rugby Club. employment, especially as regards migrants and non-nationals. Having a full set of kit makes such a Without this scholarship difference in helping and the generous support of the team look and Hertford’s alumni, I simply could feel professional! not have come to Oxford. Thank you

18 19 Music

David Heathcote (2012) David recently completed an Hertford alumnus and luthier undergraduate Masters and has Christopher Martyn made two just started a DPhil in Physical and lovely violins which he donated to Theoretical Chemistry. He has been the college. I was offered one on leader of the Hertford College Orchestra loan at the end of Hilary in my third since he first joined the college, a choral year, initially so that I could ‘play award holder and a member of the the instrument in’. It soon became Hertford Bruckner Orchestra. apparent that this violin was far superior to my own instrument and I have been playing it ever since. Rowing Playing a really good violin has really increased my confidence and Steve Crabb is President of the Hertford College Boat Club. in the past year I gave my first ever solo recital, followed by a second Most of our rowing squad had never been in a boat before they came to one at the Geoffrey Warnock Hertford – so we spend a lot of time and money on coaching to get our Society Lunch. crews competitive with more established colleges. Zoe Lee had never rowed before she got here, and she just won silver at the Rio Olympics! This year we took both the senior men’s and women’s squad to external events – we’re so grateful for the donations from the Boat Club Society that allowed us to enter our crews into races outside the Oxford bubble. And donations help us maintain our boats and equipment with the wear Playing a really good violin has and tear that comes with bumps racing at Oxford. really increased my confidence and in the past year I gave my first ever solo recital

20 21 Portraits

Alumnus Chris Mockler (1963) The Courtauld and the Hamilton coordinated the restoration of the Kerr Institute inspected the portraits historic portraits from Hall, which and provided a report. All needed was funded by a donation from the cleaning, many had tears in them and Hertford Society. there was even a knife in the back of one of them! Over the following The portraits in Hall represent part months, the portraits were restored of the college heritage but over and will be back hanging proudly in the years most had deteriorated. Hall after the Michaelmas vacation. Fortunately an opportunity for restoration arose when the portraits This was a once-in-a- were taken down in 2014 for an exhibition of women alumni, followed lifetime chance to get them a year later by the current Tanner down and see what we were exhibition. This was a once-in-a- dealing with. lifetime chance to get them down and see what we were dealing with.

Richard Michell (1805-1877), John David McBride (1778 – 1868), First Principal of Hertford College (1874) Principal of Magdalen Hall (1813)

Before After Before After

22 23 Meet some of the people doing teaching Emma Smith Martin Maiden and research Professor of Shakespeare Professor of Molecular Studies, Fellow and Tutor in Epidemiology, Fellow and English Tutor in Biology Emma’s work focuses on drama Martin’s research is focused on at Hertford… from the sixteenth and seventeenth understanding the biology of bacterial centuries. She has a particular interest pathogens – microorganisms that in Shakespeare and the critical function cause disease. He particularly of Shakespeare in culture. In 2016, concentrates on Neisseria meningitidi Emma authenticated the newest – a major cause of bacterial meningitis discovery of a Shakespeare First Folio, and septicaemia worldwide. He is which was found in the collection at highly involved in translational work, Mount Stuart House on the Isle of Bute. including vaccination.

I’m approaching the 20th anniversary Ever since I was a teenager I have been of my appointment at Hertford in 1998, fascinated by the microorganisms, or where I’ve had the enormous privilege ‘germs’, which cause disease. Although of working with one of the best English infectious diseases have afflicted cohorts anywhere in Oxford. English’s mankind throughout history, scientific long strengths at Hertford means we understanding of these diseases is less attract self-motivated, serious and than 150 years old and we are only unpretentious students. My teaching beginning to understand the microbial areas mean I get the chance to work world that surrounds us. One of the with all three years, and to see the great pleasures of being an Oxford development from nervous interview tutor is the possibility of involving candidate to graduate is brilliant. undergraduates in our research, a We try to encourage our students to number of whom have gone on to develop their own critical voice: I love become graduate students and then that moment when students hear establish their own independent themselves doing that. research careers.

24 25 Alison Young David R. Greaves Dr Benjamin Skipp Dr Ingrid Rembold Professor of Public Law, Professor of Inflammation Stipendiary Lecturer in Music Junior Research Fellow Fellow and Tutor in Law Biology, Fellow & Tutor in Benjamin is a musicologist and in History Alison’s research looks at theoretical Medicine and Physiology performer. His doctoral research was Ingrid’s research examines the issues in public law. She also Chronic inflammation can be a defining on minimalism and he has written Carolingian dynasty, who ruled large focuses on a comparative analysis feature of many human diseases from recently on the music of Arvo Part. swathes of Western Europe from 750- of human rights protections. Alison coronary heart disease to rheumatoid His academic interests include music 887AD, and their ability to insinuate has published on the concept of arthritis. David’s research probes the historiography, analysis and the themselves into monasteries and sovereignty as invoked in the Brexit role of chemokines – proteins produced music of Haydn. local networks. Her study will examine debate and recently completed a during inflammation – in heart disease. the political ideology and personal book on democratic dialogue. This basic science research is uncovering I applied for the lectureship at relationships on which royal authority novel pathways that can be targeted Hertford because I knew the college over such institutions was predicated. I came to Hertford in 1993 as a for the development of new anti- had a reputation for student-led graduate to study for the Bachelor in inflammatory drugs. music. There is an active music Junior Research Fellowships give early Civil Law (BCL) and I returned seven society (perhaps the most active career academics the opportunity to years later as a Tutorial Fellow in Law. The quality of our medical research is in the university) and I wanted to establish their research before the In the 1980s you did not get many world-class and we are committed to be supportive of that. The music demands of a permanent job set in. In kids from council estates thinking research-led teaching for academically students at Hertford are notable for my case, I’m completing a book-length about going to University, let alone able young medical students in a their broad interests, and enthusiasm study of my PhD dissertation – currently working at one! I would not have supportive college environment. I enjoy to engage with many kinds of titled Conquest and Christianization: been able to come here without my weekly tutorials with Hertford’s 18 repertoire from across history and Saxony and the Carolingian World, funding, but sadly these days research medical students, where we discuss globally. They are particularly keen 772-888 – but more importantly, grants are becoming more and more classic experiments and current medical to explore musical composition and this three-year post allows me to scarce. If Hertford is to continue to controversies. I also teach Pathology to the meanings society has historically pursue a new and exciting research ensure anyone with the ability can all 150 second year medical students and found there. And they are unwilling agenda, My new project seeks to come to Oxford, we need to raise am also Director of Graduate Studies for to accept, uncritically, the idea that reassess the reform of monasteries as much as we can for graduate and 16 DPhil students studying Cardiovascular some composers or compositions are in the time of Charlemagne and his undergraduate bursaries, which is why Science; and I run an active research beyond reproach! There is a healthy successors, a formational period for the we’re very grateful for all the support laboratory studying the basic science of iconoclastic streak. development of monasticism and ideas our alumni give. inflammation – it’s a demanding job! of governance.

26 27 Meet our donors!

Brittany Pearce (2010) Nick Jefferson (1994) I began to donate to Hertford a matter “As long as kids are told that Oxford of weeks after finishing my Finals. It isn’t, somehow, ‘for them’ then we all became clear to me that the support miss out. Society misses out, by not I had experienced at Hertford vastly furthering the brightest and the best – outstripped that offered to friends at regardless of where they come from. other institutions. Tutors had gone The University misses out, because its above and beyond to support students; ongoing reputation is dependent on Peter Millican, my Philosophy tutor, the diversity and plurality of thought always said that if the light was on in that drives truly great thinking. his room we were more than welcome A. John Harrison (1938) to pop up for tea/wine (depending on And, most of all, young people miss I’m told I’m the oldest donor to So why give? Hertford has been the hour) and a chat. out - on the genuinely transformative Hertford and have been giving and is one of the path-breaking privilege that is Hertford. They are held annually since 1990; I was 97 on colleges at Oxford, among the first As a comprehensive school student I back, needlessly, by the maddening, August 3rd this year. I went up to men’s colleges to admit women, had had some concerns before starting feudal bonds of ‘class’, ‘station’ and Hertford in 1938 from Wellington and now extending the reach of at Hertford. These were quickly allayed ‘knowing one’s place’. School in Somerset and in those days admissions for bright secondary by tutors, the wonderful staff (I am Hertford had no tutor for Modern school students. That’s why money sure a countless number have fond I want others to have opportunity Languages so my French Tutor was at for scholarships and bursaries and memories of the late, great porter Scott) to be liberated from shackles with Merton and my German tutor, Reginald other forms of student support is so and friendliness of other students. warrior-like gusto. I want others to Maxse, was at Brasenose. In his youth necessary. That’s where my money know and receive what we have all Reginald had been a concert pianist goes. And I hope it can become Three years at Hertford was all too brief known and received; the lifelong gift to the Tsars in St. Petersburg. Such an encouragement to others to do but was excellent preparation for my of our education from and in Hertford was the range of European culture likewise. transition to a career at the Bar. It was College: intellectual curiosity, learning in Oxford. And, I well remember a the day-to-day experiences that really how to learn and an insatiably hearty concert by Sergei Rachmaninov in the “made” Oxford for me, and in giving appetite for life. Sheldonian in 1938. I hope to help others create similarly wonderful memories during their time That’s why I donate. at Hertford.

28 29 Ian Michael Anthony Swing Michael Slocombe 1972 Richard Scott Adrian Titcombe David Tester Simon Attwood Peter Stokes John Waterston John Whitaker Lindsay Forbes Warwick Wilson Nigel Wilkes Dave Fussell 1966 Tobias Wolff Stephen Jukes 1963 Raymond Chadwick & Catherine Wolff Martin Morgan Thank you to Toby Atkinson Andrew Cullis Bernard Murphy Rodney Baker-Bates Steve Greenwald 1970 David Newman Clive Eiles John Guest Brian Belchers Pete Owen Leo Horton Peter Hollins Dinos Caroussis Christopher Smale 2015-2016 donors Mark Jennings Howard Johnson Chris Dowell Paul Stannard Tony Mitchell Derek Leslie Peter Gale Jeremy Stevens Christopher Mockler Jim O’Toole Tom Greenshields Anonymous Richard Partridge Rupert Perry Nigel Henson 1938 Denis Price 1957 Geoff Martin Alan Richards Nick McCave Chris Plunkett Norman Woolfson Henry MacDonald 1973 John Harrison Christopher Doman Ray Proctor Anonymous Paul Manduca Allan Scott Simon Frazer Clive Prior Marc Angers Michael Ross Paul Tompsett Donald McCready Jon Billowes 1943 John Henson Patrick Walsh-Atkins 1967 Stuart Mole Peter More 1953 Ronald Pattinson Mike St John Nigel Butler Jasper Bell David Walde Julian Whitehead Stephen Brooks James Scrymgeour- Phil Davies Hugh Walker Anonymous Philip Chapman Wedderburn John Cane 1958 Roger Westbrook Stephen Gill Mike Essex David Clark Geoff Sears Bob Grant 1946 Ian Barnett 1964 Brian Curwen Neil Swindells Roderick Cavaliero Quintin Knight John Beck 1961 Ian Hamilton Derek Roebuck Alan Bowers Mike Brumage John Garson Richard Wheeler Brian Harris Michael Brignall Tony Champion Richard Harington 1948 Laurence Silman Rodney Chambers Christopher Craig David Hughes Ian Crichton Jim Copper Brian Quinn 1971 Steven Jones Michael Fish Ian Gunn Tim Cornish Vic Rayward-Smith David Arscott Norman Perrin 1954 Charles Phythian- Andrew Cunningham Christopher Lewis Jim Catty Malcolm Davies Peter Edwards Ian Reid Bill Banks Peter Newman Adams Julian Hay Phillip Runchman Alan Barlow 1949 Thomas Charlesworth Andrew Stubbs Martin Friend Stephen Pratt Richard Christophers Garry Gauss Mike Henderson Robin Selby Ephraim Borowski Brian Smith Timothy Wood Tom Wansbrough David Holton Ian Sharp Kevin Bounds Gordon Davy Geoffrey Woodger John Guyatt Ian Stephenson Alan Fraser David Mander Graham Jones Mike Wyatt Geoffrey Carr Mark Szymanski 1950 Anonymous Tony Mitcheson Crispian Cartwright Colin Curley Michael Kirby Eric Martin Michael Watson David Loewe Anthony Quigley Chris Morton 1968 Peter Crowley Mark White Robert Graham 1959 Jerry Owen Lindsay Bashford David Davies Peter Green John McLaughlin John Blake Keith Sheather Anonymous Donald McLeod John Staples Mike Paul Peter Binham Jonathan Davies Peter Harkness Robin Cocks Roger Sherman Meredith Childerstone Mick Evans Owen Taylor Charles Gibson Ken Waters 1974 1955 Roger Wheeler George Spencer John Clark Peter Friend Willie Barne Christian Strover Tony Gladwin Andrew Turrall John Dewar Mike Gover David Cutler Alan Mayhew Clive Williams Alice Barrigan Peter Dennis Anonymous Hugh Whittaker Robert Peel Anthony Jones & Rob Barrigan 1951 Geoffrey Parkinson Paul Phillips Peter Lane Dennis Bonney Lindley D’Alessandro Bruce Pattullo David Carter Jeremy Rowbotham 1962 1965 Paul Tanswell Graeme Marshall Gordon Chan George Jupe Jeffrey Preston Andrew Blake Ian Walsh Philip Masson George Mohr John Wroughton Hugh Sturzaker Graham Allison Barry Chopping Geoff Bates Mike Burt Richard Ward Roderic Mitchell Nick Graves Edwin Pomeroy Roger Trafford David Cornwell Paul White Charles Nixon Michael Port Richard Willcock Robert Bearman Eric Harris 1956 Chris Brooks Jeremy Dawkins Tony Widdows Graham Rogers David Harrison Dick Williams Colin Wright Ivor Fiennes Alan Sandall David Cressey & Liz Brooks Stephen Kinsey Mark Drake David Cattrall Graham Griffiths 1969 Nigel Saul Antony Longworth 1952 1960 Richard Groom Paul Aynsley Tony Smith Brian Glover Alan Freeman David Baker John Doble Pat Rhodes Bill Lewis Alan Fearnley Alan Hinchcliffe Alan Gelb Joe Szurszewski Cara Rodger David Goldberg Iain Cheyne Graham Johnson Peter Hulse Nick Traill Frederick Hampson John Lewis Martin Davies David Gallifant Kate Stross Julian Paxton Michael Gee Andrew Leleux Neil Kinghan Louis Wheeler Stephen Taylor Michael Harris Peter Johansen Rodney Nelson-Jones Tom Robinson Anonymous Hugh Scurfield Chris Johns Michael Knee Boris Tyzuk

30 31 Tim Wheeler & Henrietta Ewart Andrew Callard Fran Gunning Simon Draper Roanna Doe Gareth Williams 1996 Sarah Walker (1975) Edward Fisher Emilio Cattaneo Eleanor Hellier Jeremy East Gareth Dunn Jayne Woodside Paul Armitt Adrian Hough & John Clark Adrian Jack Paul Gleeson Susan Gollins Alice Yew Lisa Bate 1975 Kathryn Hough (1980) Martin Collins Markus Jaigirder Doris Lenck Chris Harris Sara Boltman Helen Alexander Kevin Jones Roger Edbrooke Tom Jensen Martin Lipton John Millar 1992 Adam Gross Clare Dobie Keith Lyall Ed Farquharson Andrew Leonard Alan Livsey Steven Ngo Paula Clarke Eric Hunter Fred Hopper & Jenny Robert Mellors Christopher Godfrey Phil Martin James Newton-Price Vernee Samuel Andrew Farrant David Ingham Hopper (1977) Nick O’Brien Julie Hazell Helen Mumford Sole & Rob Seymour & Robert Keys (1988) Thomas Heath Matthew Mellor Peter Howard Richard Quinn Jeremy Heywood Peter Sole Mark Shury-Smith Anonymous James Hylins Rachael Pearson Paul Hughes David Sinclair-Jones & 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32 33 Ben McDermott Antonia Mercandino 2009 Malcolm Parks Jason Millar Agnes Arnold-Forster Bao Pham Jessica Tooby Lauren Eyland Simon Ramsden Dana Segev Ruth Tarrant 2004 Stephanie Wooler Bethany Ehlmann 2010 Edward Lamb Sixtine D’Angelin What next 2000 John Marnham Brittany Pearce Sara Bielecki Viral Mehta Stephan Bocklet Ikaraam Ullah 2011 Louise Cowley John Kirn III for Hertford? Lotte Gjertsen 2005 Rhys Owens Gurjeet Grewal Simon D’Alton Holson Yap Kelly Hagedorn Emma Danforth This year we’re placing even more emphasis on student support Michael Newbold Stephen Forrest 2014 with our #TeamHertford campaign. Last year we spent £250,000 on Dan O’Brien Alexander Gilkes Gregg DiPietro bursaries, scholarships, hardship grants and outreach, so this year we Anonymous Emma Jones Anonymous Thomas Lowe want to raise £300,000 for student support so we can do even more Tiina Murtola for the students who really need it. 2001 Lena Nguyen Tim Bass & Mia Bass Thomas Nunn There are also several building and renovation projects on the James Fisher Anup Patel horizon, with opportunities for you to make your mark on the Hertford Todd Green Tom Roberts James Grigg Phillip Robinson-Moore Gifts from Principals site…. we’ll keep you posted! Christopher Jones Holly Rouse-Sweeney Will Hutton Jan Lasik Poppy Street Walter Bodmer Huw Lloyd Kelsey Traher John Landers Robert Pace Fiona Pearce 2006 Friends of Hertford Hertfolk #TeamHertford Joan Coles Simon Pritchard Jo Badham Each and every person at Raising £300,000 Carina Brehony Richard de Unger & Adeela Qureshi for student support 2002 Eve Jackson Mary Kennedy Hertford has a story to tell…. Christopher Davison Anonymous Matthew Lewin Visit Scott Johnston James Miller www.hertford.ox.ac.uk/hertfolk Mike Loydon 2007 Kenji Nakakoshi to meet the Hertfordians – Tim Sahr Kathy O’Neill Holly Foster & Patrick and get in touch to submit Samuel Peacock and Anne Foster Sushil Wadhwani Bridget Phillipson Ella Fry Ruth Cox your own story! Jennifer Reynolds Jonathan Galaviz & Michael Page Tobi Rufus Sarah Harvey Anonymous Rachel Sharples Emily Richey Anonymous Anna Soderstrom Alex Woolgar Tristan Walker And thanks to our other donors Online giving: donating to 2008 Drapers’ Hall 2003 William Chivers Duncan Norman Trust Fund on behalf of Hertford has never been easier Hertford360: Head over to Nabeel Alsindi Simon Gage Richard Asser (1950) a global event for a Judith Cohen Sarah Kelly King’s Bench Walk donate.hertford.ox.ac.uk to global network Karol Dudzinski Ian Tan The Launan Charitable Trust support the future of our Launching Laura Elson James Wilson Mayer Brown LLP college and our students using Jillian Gaskell Anonymous Orchid Charitable Trust 1 January 2017… our brand new, interactive David Genis The Patrick Hughes Trust watch this space! Alexander Le West Coast University online giving page Willis Towers Watson Plc

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